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jeremejevite

It honors the Russian mineralogist Pavel Vladimirovich Jeremejev (1830-1899) who has identified it in 1883 in Siberia.



CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Al6[BO3]5(F,OH)3

aluminium borate mineral



PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Main color

blue

Other colors

white, blue, colourless, yellow

Color of streak

white

Luster

vitreous

Hardness

6.5 to 7.5

Density

3.26 to 3.32

Cleavage

none

Fracture

conchoidal



OPTICAL PROPERTIES

Transparency

transparent

Refractive index

1.636 - 1.654

Double refraction

0.007

weak uniaxial negative

visible double refraction

No

Pleochroism

absent

Number of colors

1

Fluorescence

none



CRYSTALS PROPERTIES

elongated prismatic

crystals system

hexagonal



OTHER INFORMATIONS

Exploited
sites

It is found in the Erongo Region at Arandis in Namibia, country from which the finest stones in gem quality, of a blue color, come from.
But also in Madagascar, in larger crystals, but less colored, in Tajikistan, also in larger crystals but not transparent and brown or yellow, and in historical deposits: in Germany (Eifel Mountains in the Palatinate), and Russia in eastern Siberia.

use in jewelry

Very rare because its crystal gems are always very small, it is cut in facets, also baguette, from its elongated blue crystals coming from Namibia. This is a collection stone but its hardness and strength, make it usable in jewelry if big gem crystals were discovered.

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